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Banquet vs Junket - What's the difference?

banquet | junket |

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between banquet and junket

is that banquet is (obsolete) to have dessert after a feast while junket is (obsolete) a delicacy.

As nouns the difference between banquet and junket

is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while junket is (obsolete) a basket.

As verbs the difference between banquet and junket

is that banquet is to participate in a banquet; to feast while junket is to go on or attend a junket.

banquet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  • (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
  • * Massinger
    • We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.

    Verb

  • To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  • * Milton
    • Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
  • (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
  • * Cavendish
    • Where they did both sup and banquet .
  • To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
  • * Coleridge
    • Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
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    junket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A basket.
  • A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
  • * 1818 , John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
    • I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly [...].
  • (obsolete) A delicacy.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.4:
    • Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].
  • A feast or banquet.
  • * 1790 , Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker , Vol III. No 124., page 95
    • Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].
  • A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
  • (gaming) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

    • Verb

  • To go on or attend a junket.
  • * South
    • Job's children junketed and feasted together often.